New York-Style Crumb Cake Muffins

Name: New York-Style Crumb Cake Muffins
Yield: Makes 12 muffins
Cuisine: US & Canada, Mid-Atlantic, American
Ingredients: 1/3 cup, granulated sugar (2 2/3 ounces; 75 grams); 1/3 cup, dark brown sugar (2 2/3 ounces; 75 grams); 3/4 teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 1/8 teaspoon, table salt; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter (1 stick), melted and still warm; 1 3/4 cups, cake flour (7 ounces; 198 grams); 1 1/4 cups, cake flour (5 ounces; 142 grams); 1/2 cup, granulated sugar (3 1/2 ounces; 99 grams); 1/4 teaspoon, baking soda; 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter (3/4 stick), cut into 6 pieces, softened but still cool; 1 , large egg; 1 , large egg yolk; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1/3 cup, buttermilk; , Confectioners' sugar for dusting

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2008

Desserts or Baked Goods

We wanted to bring this New York classic home—but not from the supermarket.

SERVESMakes 12 muffins

TIME1¼ hours, plus 20 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Since an authentic New York crumb cake recipe should have rich dough topped with thick chunks of lightly spiced crumb topping, we tweaked our favorite yellow cake batter to use in our crumb cake muffin recipe. For a proper crumb topping, we...

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